Course objectives

Introductions and course logistics

Explain how vSphere interacts with CPUs, memory, networks, storage, and GPUs

Describe how vSphere fits in the software-defined data center and the cloud infrastructure

Recognize the user interfaces for accessing vSphere

Explain basic virtualization concepts

Configure the ESXi host settings using the DCUI and VMware Host Client

Recognize ESXi user account best practices

Install an ESXi host

Explain how to set networking policies on standard and distributed switches

Recognize the difference between standard switches and distributed switches

Configure and view distributed switch configurations

Configure and view standard switch configurations

Configure and manage NFS datastores

Create and manage VMFS datastores

Describe iSCSI components and addressing

Configure iSCSI storage on ESXi

Describe Fibre Channel components and addressing

Identify types of vSphere datastores

Recognize vSphere storage technologies

Manage multiple versions of VM templates in content libraries

Deploy VMs from content libraries

Create local, published, and subscribed content libraries

Create customization specifications for guest operating systems

Clone VMs

Create VM templates and deploy VMs from them

Modify VMs by dynamically increasing resources

Navigate the vSphere Client and examine VM settings and options

Recognize the components of a VM

Identify the files that make up a VM

Explain the importance of VMware Tools

Create and provision VMs

Define CPU and memory shares, reservations, and limits

Describe how VMs compete for resources

Describe CPU and memory concepts in relation to a virtualized environment

Manage, consolidate, and delete snapshots

Migrate VMs using vSphere Storage vMotion

Describe the role of Enhanced vMotion Compatibility in migrations

Take a snapshot of a VM

Migrate VMs using vSphere vMotion

Recognize the types of VM migrations that you can perform within a vCenter instance and across vCenter instances

Recognize when to use vSphere Fault Tolerance

Configure a vSphere HA cluster

Recognize the use cases for various vSphere HA settings

Recognize vSphere HA design considerations

Identify options for configuring network redundancy in a vSphere HA cluster

Describe how vSphere HA responds to various types of failures

Monitor a vSphere DRS cluster

Recognize use cases for vSphere DRS settings

Explain how vSphere DRS determines VM placement on hosts in the cluster

View information about a vSphere cluster

Create a vSphere cluster enabled for vSphere DRS and vSphere HA

Use vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade VMware Tools and VM har

Describe vSphere Lifecycle Manager automatic recommendations

Validate ESXi host compliance against a cluster image and update ESXi hosts

Update ESXi hosts using vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Describe ESXi images

Describe how to update hosts using baselines

Distinguish between managing hosts using baselines and managing hosts using images

Recognize features of vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Run vCenter upgrade prechecks and interoperability reports

Describe features of the vCenter Update Planner

Enable vSphere Lifecycle Manager in a vSphere cluster